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Image: Krys Lee. Photograph by Matt Douma.
Words Without Borders caught up with writer and translator Krys Lee. Her novel How I Became a North Korean was just published by Viking/Penguin Random House.
Words Without Borders (WWB): You write in English and translate from Korean. What inspired you to begin working as a translator, and does your work as a translator influence your fiction and how you think about language?
Krys Lee (KL): Years ago over brunch, Young-ha Kim, a Korean writer I...

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